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  2. Viga (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    These building techniques date back to the Ancestral Puebloan peoples of 750 to 1300 CE, and vigas (or holes left where the vigas have deteriorated) are visible in many of their surviving buildings. Since the popularization of the modern Pueblo Revival style in the 1920s and 1930s, vigas are typically used for ornamental rather than structural ...

  3. Post and lintel - Wikipedia

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    Post and lintel (also called prop and lintel, a trabeated system, or a trilithic system) is a building system where strong horizontal elements are held up by strong vertical elements with large spaces between them. This is usually used to hold up a roof, creating a largely open space beneath, for whatever use the building is designed.

  4. Deck (building) - Wikipedia

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    Decks can also be covered by a canopy or pergola to control sunlight. Deck designs can be found in numerous books, do-it-yourself magazines, and websites, and from the USDA. [8] Typical construction is either of a post and beam architecture, or a cantilever construction. The post-and-beam construction relies on posts anchored to piers in the ...

  5. Post (structural) - Wikipedia

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    Dragon – (rare) A corner post supporting a dragon beam in jetty framing. Gunstock, jowled, flared, teasel (rare) – A flared post, larger at the top than the bottom, most commonly found in the side walls but could be any location. Rarely a post may have an "integral bracket" [14] which is a mid-post

  6. Vault (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Gothic rib vault ceiling of the Saint-Séverin church in Paris Interior elevation view of a Gothic cathedral, with rib-vaulted roof highlighted. In architecture, a vault (French voûte, from Italian volta) is a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof.

  7. Holystone - Wikipedia

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    As I recall, sea water and sand were used to aid the effort. The result, once finished with a sea water rinse and a sun bleach, was a clean white deck, just in time for our arrival in Portsmouth, England. A photo on the US Navy's Navsource [10] purports to show Navy Midshipmen holystoning the deck of the same ship in 1951.

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  9. Sill plate - Wikipedia

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    An unusual barn in Schoonebeek, Netherlands with interrupted sills, the posts land directly on the padstone foundation Norwegian style framing, Kravik Mellom, Norway. In historic buildings the sills were almost always large, solid timbers framed together at the corners, carry the bents, and are set on the stone or brick foundation walls, piers, or piles (wood posts driven or set into the ground).

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